Word: forbidden
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...faded, but the warning is current. Beyond it, a jumble of petrol drums, sticks and signs blocks the narrow bitumen strip, and in the shadows a group of young men stand guard. For most people, Morgan Junction is as close as they dare come to the island's forbidden zone...
...midnight cross-dressing spree in an outdoor produce market. It is the servant couple, played by Karen MacDonald and Thomas Derrah, who hilariously propel the plot through some of its most crucial twists and turns. Their second act tryst summarizes all the characters’ struggles between the forbidden desires, ethical dilemmas and stifling social conventions which they constantly confront in their lives...
...cope with the results. If we cannot agree on, for example, what counts as unjustifiable homicide (as we cannot in the case of abortion), then perhaps we constitute a polity in name only and should be free to secede from the Union. Or is that our democracy's only forbidden desire? Anthony Flood New York City...
Boys and girls dressed in khakis and maroon sweaters walk silently across the campus in tidy lines. Speaking out of turn is forbidden. All activities are directed toward correcting old bad habits. Tony Robbins' self-improvement tapes are played during meals, and the teens spend hours charting their behavior. Instead of receiving classroom instruction, they work their way through a self-guided academic curriculum. Residents who follow the rules move through the program's progress levels and are granted more leniency; those who disobey receive demerits and lose privileges. About 20% of the students are on behavior-related medications, prescribed...
...cope with the results. If we cannot agree on, for example, what counts as unjustifiable homicide (as we cannot in the case of abortion), then perhaps we constitute a polity in name only and should be free to secede from the Union. Or is that our democracy's only forbidden desire? ANTHONY FLOOD New York City...